Malala returns to Pakistan home town for first time since attack


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Islamabad – Malala Yousafzai, a 20-year-old Pakistani preparation rights icon, has returned home to her internal Swat Valley for a initial time given being shot by a Taliban there some-more than 5 years ago.


Yousafzai flew from a collateral Islamabad to Mingora, a categorical city in Swat, by helicopter on Saturday morning. She quickly met friends and teachers from her aged delegate propagandize before streamer to an eventuality organized in her honour during a circuitously college.


Security was parsimonious opposite a valley, confidence officials told Al Jazeera, with internal troops coordinating with a military, that still has a sizeable participation in a hollow once ruled by a Pakistan Taliban.


“Mostly a outing is private, she is visiting her friends and family in Mingora,” Akhtar Hayat Khan, a comparison troops official, told Al Jazeera.


Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on Thursday, a initial time she had been means to lapse given Pakistan Taliban gunmen shot her in a head on her approach to propagandize in Oct 2012.


Since then, she has championed a means of immature women’s right to an education, campaigning around a universe and lifting millions of dollars to launch programmes in Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, Lebanon and elsewhere.


In 2014, she jointly won a Nobel Peace Prize, along with Indian rights romantic Kailash Satyarthi, apropos a youngest chairman ever to do so.


Last year, she was accepted for a Bachelors grade programme during Oxford University in a UK, where she has resided given receiving diagnosis there in 2012 for wounds postulated in a attack. 


She has mostly spoken, however, of how most she has missed home, and quite a plateau of a lifelike Swat Valley, where she hails from.


“I had always dreamed that we could come behind to Pakistan, and that we could pierce on a streets, speak to people, accommodate people, but any fear,” she pronounced during an eventuality in Islamabad on Thursday, where she was visibly romantic during her return, mostly wiping tears from her eyes.


Taliban crackdown


The Pakistan Taliban ruled a Swat Valley with an iron fist for roughly dual years until 2009, when a troops launched an operation to mislay them from a northern Pakistani region.


While a operation was successful in reinforcing a command of Pakistan’s supervision over a valley, occasionally attacks opposite Taliban opponents continued for several years after it was completed, including a one opposite Malala.


As recently as final year, anti-Taliban leaders were still being targeted in attacks, nonetheless a magnitude of such attempts has decreased.


In February, during slightest 11 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a self-murder conflict on a troops bottom in a city of Kabal, about 10km west of Mingora.



Pakistan has blamed that conflict on Afghanistan-based Pakistani Taliban fighters, and on Thursday handed Afghan authorities a dossier per those allegations, according to a Pakistani unfamiliar method statement.


It is misleading if Yousafzai will revisit her internal encampment in a beside district of Shangla, located about 35km from Mingora, where her Malala Fund has helped build a new delegate propagandize for children in a area.


Asad Hashim is Al Jazeera’s Web Correspondent in Pakistan. He tweets @AsadHashim.


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